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Title: CARTOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND ACADEMIA.
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 165Issue: 3Page: 253

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Map Reading & Land Navigation 2001. 246 pages. Table of Contents:CHAPTER 1. TRAINING STRATEGYCHAPTER 2. MAPSCHAPTER 3. MARGINAL INFORMATION AND SYMBOLSCHAPTER 4. GRIDSCHAPTER 5. SCALE AND DISTANCECHAPTER 6. DIRECTIONCHAPTER 7. OVERLAYSCHAPTER 8. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHSCHAPTER 9. NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT AND METHODSCHAPTER 10. ELEVATION AND RELIEFCHAPTER 11. TERRAIN ASSOCIATIONCHAPTER 12. MOUNTED LAND NAVIGATIONCHAPTER 13. NAVIGATION IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF TERRAINCHAPTER 14. UNIT SUSTAINMENT ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1645 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. Includes articles written by eminent scholars covering major topics in art, government, and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. Also covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish Inquisition, Utopia and others. ... Read more

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Geography and cartography in medieval Islam. Islamic Golden Age, Hajj, Astronomy in medieval Islam, Islamic economics in the world, List of Graeco-Roman geographers, Inventions of the Islamic Golden Age, Ibn Battuta, Tabula Rogeriana, Pre-Columbian Andalusian-Americas contact theories, Medicine in medieval Islam, Muslim Agricultural Revolution ... Read more

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Chapters: Cartography, Physical Geography, Human Geography, Physiographic Regions of the World, Political Geography, Planetary Cartography, Health Geography, Vernacular Geography, Regional Geography, Geomorphometry, Philosophy of Geography, Animal Geographies. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The physiographic regions of the world are a means of defining the Earth's landforms into distinct regions based upon Nevin Fenneman's classic three-tiered approach of divisions, provinces and sections, in 1916, which although they date from the mid 1910s, are still considered basically valid, and were the basis for similar classifications of other continents later. These works have been termed "Indespensible to any student of physiography are the maps and physiographic diagrams by Fenneman, Lobeck, Raisz, and Hammond". During the early 1900s, the study of regional-scale geomorphology was termed "physiography". Unfortunately, physiography later was considered to be a contraction of "physical" and "geography", and therefore synonymous with physical geography, and the concept became embroiled in controversy surrounding the appropriate concerns of that discipline. Some geomorphologists held to a geological basis for physiography and emphasized a concept of physiographic regions while a conflicting trend among geographers was to equate physiography with "pure morphology," separated from its geological heritage. In current usage, physiography still lends itself to confusion as to which meaning is meant, the more specialized "geomorphological" definition or the more encompassing "physical geography" definition. For the remainder of this article, emphasis will remain on the more "geomorphological" usage, which is based upon geological landforms, not on climate, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14500263 ... Read more

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History of Geography. Chinese geography, History of cartography, Geography and cartography in medieval Islam, Chronology of European exploration of Asia, Environmental determinism, Regional geography, Quantitative revolution, Critical geography, Physical geography ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 780 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This set has been prepared especially for nonspecialists, focusing on Renaissance-era topics, including entries on Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. ... Read more

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Scythia and the islands in the Ocean-Sea, the farthest northern and northeastern regions of the world known to ancient and medieval geographers, roughly correspond to modern-day Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Those areas figured prominently in cartography of the Middle Ages. The mythical island of Scandza, the land of the Amazons, the apocalyptic tribes of Gog and Magog, and other traditional symbols of chaos and barbarity, existed side by side and often merged with new knowledge about people, cities, and states. Included in the book are comprehensive glossaries, which comprise the names of persons, places, ethnicities, and animals, and provide commentaries on the cartographic legends. The book features about one hundred reproductions of individual maps and their details. ... Read more

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The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700.

The author has undertaken a review of the literature, conducted an exhaustive investigation in many major libraries and private collections, analyzed these findings, and then compiled information on the 174 distinctly separate maps of the African continent.

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The standard reference text and beautiful as well
As an historian of Africa I have a practical interest in this book because it collects in one place, more exhaustively than in any other volume published to date, a huge range of maps documenting the growth of knowledge about the African continent. It is the definitive text and no library, collector of maps, or historian of Africa should be without a copy. Moreover, it is a beautifully produced book with excellent reproductions of the maps. I just wish there was another volume on the period since 1700.

"A Thousand Sparkling Lights"
Cartography can be viewed as the study of horizons. For countless millennia, knowledge about Africa seemed lost in the notion of a `torrid-zone'. Yet by the gift of reason, cartography became the vehicle to see what can exist beyond our immediate experience. In recent centuries, most of the pre-eminent nations have tried to chart a piece of Africa, and all the great cartographers have made their mark on this land. Notably this year, a valuable new book arrived that takes us to the seat of this heritage. "THE MAPPING OF AFRICA: A CARTOBIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED MAPS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO 1700", by Richard L. Betz, is the most thoroughly researched contribution since the late Oscar Norwich assembled his fine collection more than 25 years ago.

Upon opening this book, I experienced what Jean Jacques Rousseau in 1749 described as "...a thousand sparkling lights". The book is a telling example of the synergy achieved by private and academic partnerships. The private passion of author Richard L. Betz, and the academic instruction of Peter van der Krogt and the Universiteit Utrecht/Research Program Explocart have combined to accomplish an otherwise insurmountable task. After long years as an economic consultant in Africa, Richard Betz began a new career in the trade and research of historical maps. By logging hundreds of library visits over 10 years in 10 different countries, he brings to bear the sharp pencil of an accountant and the fastidious plow of a yeoman, as he displays a respectful attention to accuracy. I have watched the author as well as the book grow from scattered questions in a Miami museum, to gradually achieving a command of the material with substantive answers that now become available to all of us and to future generations.

In truth, this book is not a history of Africa. It is more a history of "information". It is an investigation into the origin, nature, methods, conveyance, and limitations of human knowledge. The scope is highly focused on delineating each and every printed depiction of the whole continent from years 1500 to 1700, (excluding regional or world maps except where their mention adds clarity to a topic). The structure contains three parts plus an exhaustive index of names, libraries, and references. The first part is a concise historical review of the earliest European, Islamic, and Chinese contributions to the formation of a graphic concept of Africa. Next there is an interpretive attempt to outline six models or patterns during the period of investigation, followed by the actual cartobibliography of all 174 known maps that meet the strict criteria. Each entry contains pertinent details including an identification number, full title, subtitle, edition, dimensions, scale, coordinates, and a full description of the cartouche, the important toponyms, and certain physical features present on the map.

Here are five particular strengths that all readers will find valuable:

1. The uniform structured format.
2. The location of material examples never before known.
3. The photography of exemplary maps never before seen.
4. The publication information (including the fully researched dates, source works, and creators' lineage).
5. The differentiation of every edition, state, and variant known, using careful examination of distinguishing features.

In conclusion, the legacies of Robinson, Tooley, Harley, and Woodward rest in good hands. This cartobibliography will continue to prompt the integration of past and present, even as we explore the next horizon.

Gerald J. Rizzo
Executive Director
Afriterra Foundation
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This volume provides an overview of existing and future research in cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Although the focus is clearly on cartographic issues, those are often related to GIS issues also, such as the storage, management and analysis of spatial data or the role of institutions in promoting or defeating new technological practices.It summarizes the joint effort of a group of international experts dealing with issues regarding the design, management, exploitation, representation and communication of spatial information.Each chapter provides a practitioner's summary which states the achievements to this date, and a projective summary which gives an outline of research in the field of cartography and GIS required in the future.There are eleven chapters, covering three main areas: 1. Design and development of geographic information, 2. Exploitation including management and standards, and 3. Applications including navigation, representation and communication.The book should be of interest to anyone involved in the production or usage of spatial information and may help to identify research priorities in Research and Development organizations relating to cartography and GIS. ... Read more

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